Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26538658-20151024140349/@comment-1859920-20151109224346

More than likely, between the complete construction of the abbey and the time right before the initial Redwall book, there was a period of great peace. I hypothesize that vermin would've avoided Mossflower because of the carnage that it had seen, the rumors and stories of Redwall's warriors, and maybe other environmental and circumstantial reasons. This would account for the Redwallers' "gullible" nature, stemming from the original purpose of their peaceful monastic order.

Of course, this is largely conjecture and nothing that can really be proved, but it would make sense that the Redwallers warmed up to the peaceful setting, warriors died out, and the location of the sword was forgotten; the tapestry and legend of Martin the Warrior becoming something less real and more reverently awesome, like a saint, which would collaborate with the idea of their monastic settling. To add to that, the vermin (hypothetically) would've gotten wind eventually of the peaceful abbey, now "ripe for the picking", with naïve Redwallers and an "easy" castle.